Topperweins to appear at local Gun Club event on Sept 15
The Topperweins, famed marksmen, will perform on the Gun Club grounds September 15 thanks to Winchester. Admission is free and full details are available at The Big Home Store. also notes buyers seek used kegs and barrels for winter pickle storage and farm equipment, with ads for Donkey's Fly Knocker milkers, oil drums, John Deere buggies, Cole’s air tight heaters, and Willamette tents.
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U.S
Winchester
Larkin- Prince
Aurora
Larkin-Prince Home. Co
Cole’s
Green brakeman makes first Rockies climb
A green brakeman on a Color ado railroad rode with the engine over a steep Rockies grade. The engineer, after a difficult ascent, praised the effort and relayed relief that the climb was possible, noting the brakeman’s fresh start and potential for a future role.
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Colorado
Rockies
Forest moisture and rainfall patterns discussed
The article notes forests influence moisture and rainfall, with showers recurring where trees stand. It explains how moisture sinks into soil and how forests may generate significant local precipitation effects. An estimate suggests forests contribute substantial moisture, though the exact figure is unclear in the fragment.
Italy's Crack Marks Men of the Bersaglieri Parade
A fragment describes Italy's elite Bersaglieri as highly drilled troops marching with unique gait and striking green cock feathers on their helmets. It notes their famed speed and precision, highlighting about 25,000 men.
Diamond sale to Russian Empress Stuns 18th Century Market
A diamond flowed from Temple to a Constantinople banker for 2000 and 12000 pounds, then to the Russian empress in 1774 for 90000 pounds plus a life pension. Now set in Russia, the gem weighs exactly 1944 carats with a distinct cut surface and imperial provenance.
Stinging Rebuke at Newport Society Event
A Newport social scene anecdote recounts a sharp rebuke between guests at a seashore hotel. A young married woman offered a discarded coat to a woman in white, prompting mortified blushes and a pointed exchange about belongings and desirability.
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Society
Newport
Seashore Hotel
Grenadiers Described in Diary Entry of 1678
Evelyn Grenadiera writes in 1678 diary about Greni Miers soldiers trained to toss hand grenades. They wore furred capes and crowned helmets, some reportedly led enemies with hatchets. Lon Standart attributed the description to the era.
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Grenadiera
Evelyn
Greni Miers
Not the Usual Kind in Fencing Banter
Fragmentary remarks suggest a lighthearted exchange about women and fencing. A quoted line questions the effort for women, while another speaker mentions Mauls Binks and a note about learning feints. The text appears as a playful aside in a diary or column.
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Mauls Binks
Advice on economy before and after marriage from Boston Journal
The Boston Journal quotes Stella advising engagement couples to economize before marriage and to continue prudent spending after wedlock. It frames thrift as essential for enduring harmony and stable finances in married life.
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Stella
Boston Journal
Before Prance in 1736 it throned it belonged to Austria
Fragmentary historic note indicates a sovereignty shift before 1736 with reference to a throne and Austria. The garbled text limits clear facts but points to a territorial or dynastic change linked to Austrian rule. No further details on地点 or actors are readable.
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Uaauingaaie
Austria
Sharpening a Pencil as a Child Index to Character
A Pearlson's Weekly excerpt notes that daily acts like sharpening a pencil reveal future character. Teachers observe traits in work and play, with careful sharpening showing artistic, dreamy tendencies, while roughness signals impulsiveness or destructiveness. Parents should guide children during sharpening.
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Pearson's Weekly
Carlyle's First Love and the Sartor Recartus Link
In 1818 Thomas Carlyle lived in Kirkcaldy and reportedly fell in love with Margaret Gordon. The lady did not fully reciprocate, leaving Carlyle with a lingering, elegiac memory for about three years. Some critics argue Jane Welsh inspired some details, but Gordon may be the true origin of the episode.
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Thomas Car
Kirkcaldy
Margaret Gordon
The Faust Legend Across Centuries
The survey traces a 1400 year arc from Theophilus in late antiquity to a 16th century tale of Helen of Troy and Mephistopheles to an 18th century figure of Margaret in a "beautiful but poor girl" form, noting evolving portrayals.
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Theophilus
Faust
Cracow
Helen Pret Coee
Mephistopheles
Margaret
The Dead Horses and the Smart Traveling Man
A traveling man in a rural village asks a boy about a horse. The boy responds with a quick, witty retort as dusk settles over the scene.
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Sonny
Fragmented interlude on wheels and routine repairs
A humorous fragment features a young front wheel asking the old back wheel about its endless whirl and the old wheel reassuring it. The exchange ends with a boast from a Judge about mastering the cyclical motion and a quip about the Daughter of the Revolution.
Viewpoints on a baseball star’s longevity in sport
The Boston Journal debates whether a top league batter should stay in the game into old age. The exchange weighs a player’s career peak against the sport’s demands and era’s view of aging athletes.
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Willis
Giffern
Boston Journal
Incendiary bombs described by W A Tilden in Nature
The article explains incendiary thermit bombs differ from explosive bombs by not spreading fragments but creating intense heat to start fires. It notes typical conical shapes about ten inches across, corded form with a metal handle, a fat cupped base, and occasional celluloid chippings or small petrol quantities.
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W. A. Tilden
Nature
Clever Wife Uses Umbrella to Mail Letters
A well dressed man in High Street pauses in a shower as two stamped letters fall from his umbrella. He recalls his wife’s plan to ensure mailing by placing the letters there, to be mailed despite rain.
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Wwtté
Ocoubaert
Columbus Dispatch
Diplomacy, Johnny Runaway Quarrel Cited by Parent
A parent questions Johnny for not coming home and his reply reveals fear of hearing the parent. The exchange, reported as a dialogue, shows tension between authority and a child’s avoidance.
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Johnny
John
Richmond Times
Family Joys and a Witty Retort on Sacrifice
A light quoted exchange shows a wife recalling courtship claims of unique love and her husband replying that such fidelity benefits other men. The remark ties common law of sacrifice to positive duty, attributed to Froude in the passage.
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Froude
Geologic Periods and Fossil Clues From the Carboniferous
Scientists discuss estimating geological time in years. A 2010 note by Professor Schochert cites about 000 years since the Carboniferous close. Fossil shells from Carboniferous rocks reflect diverse life across periods and regions in the Carboniferous ocean.
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Charles Schochert
Taeaf
Geie A de Tay Tie Eaiensts
Gauaciaah
Language counts across continents and regions
The world hosts about 3 424 spoken languages or dialects with 1 624 in America 987 in Asia 387 in Europe and 270 in Africa. Noted languages include Chinese Japanese Scandinavian branches Venetian dialects and the diverse tongues of India Persia Arabia and modern Greece.
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Europe
America
World
Asia
Africa
India
Persia
Arabia
Greece
A Poor Present Wounds Soldier Explains Grievance
A wounded soldier tells his nurse about a trench bullet exchange with old Smith in which the bullet that struck him allegedly killed his rival’s girl. He claims fairness and that he deserved a similar second chance.
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Smith
New York City Maintains Eight Pension Funds
New York City operates eight pension funds including for teachers police department health department College of the City of New York and the Supreme Court Appellate Division among others.
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New York City
Police Rong Gee Say
Department of Health Fund
College of the City of New York
Supreme Court Appellate Division Fund
City of New
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John Deere
Larkin-Prince
Greater Oregon
University of Orexom
University OF Oregon
Eugene
Oregon
Italy
Carlyle
Sartor Recartus
Oregonian and Graphic
LoneFir Dairy
State Dairy and Food Car
Parlor Pharmacy
J. L. van Blaricom
Nepeace
Phope
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